UPDATED AGAIN - An attack on Israel is an attack on Canada? So says the PM, according to Peter Kent

Whether or not Harper has done so at the cabinet table is one thing, but a quick search of the PM's past statements on Israel seems to that the PM has not, in fact, "regularly stated" any such thing -- not in public, at least. (What he may or may not say at the cabinet table is, of course, confidential.) But if we take Kent at his word, and assume that this country -- or, at least, the government -- does, in fact, now view an attack on Israel as an attack on Canada, it still raises a host of questions; the first of which would be something along the lines of, exactly what international law or existing treaty might this new-to-the-rest-of-us position based on? What is Canada committing itself to do in the event of an attack -- and for that, matter, how, in this context, is "attack" being defined? 

We're still waiting for a explanation from the minister's office on what it all means -- or, alternately, a clarification if it turns out that Kent misinterpreted what it is that the PM has "regularly stated" -- but in the meantime, a challenge to the comment brigade: Can anyone track down a quote from the prime minister in which he indicates that he considers an attack on Israel to be an attack on Canada? 

UPDATE: Well, we haven't yet heard back from Peter Kent -- who, I should note, is currently travelling, although since his office won't say exactly where he is -- but according to PMO, the minister was paraphrasing the prime minister, and that he -- the PM, that is -- "has always been clear" that those who oppose or want to destroy Israel also oppose those what Canada stands for, like democracy and the rule of law. In other words, pretty much the same thing that the PM has been saying for years, although if Kent had put it like that, it might not have grabbed the attention of Israel media outlet Arutz Sheva. 

As for what Kent has to say about PMO's interpretation of his interpretation of the PM, stay tuned. Whatever his mystery destination may be, he's got to be within cell phone range eventually, right? 

PETERKENTWATCH: OH, THERE HE IS -- Or at least, his chief of staff, Norm McIntosh, who assured the Globe that "it's not too far from what the [Prime Minister] has said," but "declined to confirm whether this means that Canada would automatically declare war on an aggressor that attacked Israel."